The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees condemned this Wednesday, 10th, the bombing of camps for displaced people in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than a hundred armed groups terrorize the population and confront the Army.
UNHCR representative in the DRC, Angele Dikongue-Atangana, says that these senseless attacks against vulnerable civilians, who have already been forced to flee their homes due to the ongoing conflict and violence in the region, are absolutely deplorable and must be condemned in more vehement terms.”
The agency denounced the multiple attacks on displacement camps last week around Goma, the capital of the eastern province of North Kivu, a strategic city with more than a million inhabitants, where many international NGOs and institutions of the UN.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the countries with the highest number of displaced people. In 2020, more than 918,000 refugees and asylum seekers from the DRC were sheltering in African countries. According to data, 5.01 million people were internally displaced.
